1st Edition
Strategic Affection? Gift Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Holland
By Irma Thoen
Copyright 2007
286 Pages
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Routledge
Gifts, from objects to hospitality and from poems to support, are a means of establishing and maintaining social ties. This study focuses on the nature of seventeenth- century Dutch social relations through the exchange of gifts by a wide range of individuals, from schoolmaster and artisan to poet and regent. Their gift-exchange behaviour is compared to contemporary gift exchange to show that both... Read more
Introduction, Part I: Practices of Gift Exchange, Part II: Gifts and Meanings, A: Rites of Passage , B: Hospitality, Part III: Terms and Conditions of Exchange, Part IV: Comparison in Time, Conclusion, Notes, Sources, Literature, Index of Subjects.
Biography
Irma Thoen received her PhD at the European University. Institute in Florence.
